Meanings
plural tractabilities
- countableuncountableThe state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.
At the expense of some realism, these simplifying assumptions afford a great deal of tractability, which allows us to make clear statements about optimal policy.
2023, Eric Sims, Jing Cynthia Wu, and Ji Zhang, The Four-Equation New Keynesian Model, The Review of Economics and Statistics 105(4), pp. 931--947
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe trait of being easily persuaded
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latintractabilitas
- Englishtractability
From tractable + -ity, from Latin tractabilitas.
More words from Latin
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